Case Alternations in Korean Coordination

Cho, Sae Youn 대한언어학회 1998 언어학 Vol.6 No.2

Cho, Sae-Youn. 1998. Case Alternations in Korean Coordination. Linguistics, 6-2, 103-117. This paper is mainly concerned with the case alternation in Korean coordination. Though there are various theories to account for the case alternation phenomenon in Korean coordination, they seem to be incomplete in that they cannot cover all case alternation cases in coordination. The reason being why it is so is that there are two split grammatical judgements with respect to the sentences in question. Hence, I provide two different analyses for the phenomenon in accordance with the grammatical judgement, instead of proposing a unified solution. (Honam University)

NPIs and Rhetorical Question in Korean

Cho, Sae Youn,Lee, Han Gyu 대한언어학회 2001 언어학 Vol.9 No.1

Cho, Sae-Yom and Lee, Han.-Gyu. 2001. NPIs and Rhetorical Question in Korean. The Linguistic Association f Korea Journal, 9(1), 145-166. This paper provides a syntactic end pragmatic account of the Negative Polarity Items (LAPIS) end Rhetorical Question (RQ) in Korean, which would be hard to explain under current syntactic views (Sohn, 1995). For a theory of NPIS to be adequate, it must answer the following questions'. (i) What is an appropriate constraint to NPIS to explain the difference in distributional behaviors between Declarative Sentences (DS) and RQ?, and (ii) Why does such a difference exist depending o constructions? To answer these questions, we propose that the distributional behavior can be dealt with by specifying lexical properties of NPIs still positing a construction type, and suggest that sentences with NPIs can be fully understood by discerning the pragmatic role of NPIs at issue. (Honam University and Kyung Lee University)

Verbal Suffix-Repetition Constructions in Korean: A Constraint-and Construction-based Approach

( Sae Youn Cho ),( Na Hyun Ku ) 경희대학교 언어연구소 2012 언어연구 Vol.29 No.1

Cho, Sae-Youn & Ku Na-Hyun 2012, Verbal Suffix-Repetition Constructions in Korean: A Constraint-and Construction-based Approach. Linguistic Research 29(1), 173-195. There are various Verbal Suffix-Repetition (VSR) constructions in Korean, where suffixes such as-na1 tun(ci)/ tun(ka) are attached to the repeated verbs. Calling the VSR Choice-denying Repeated Verbs construction, Lee (2011) claims that the following verb of the VSR, which can he replaced with ma!-, should contain a negative but the preceding verb should be affirmative in the VSR construction which disallows any NPI within it. Unlike Lee (2011), we claim that the verbs in the VSR can freely occur either in the preceding position or in the following one regardless of their Neg value so long as they share the same verbal suffix forms such as -tun(ka). Furthermore, NPIs may occur within the VSR construction if they occur with a negative predicate within the same clause. To implement the findings above into HPSG, we have proposed the two lexical entries for mal-, the VSR Construction Rule, and the NPI Clause-mate Constraint. These tools enable us to account for the idiosyncratic properties of the VSR constructions under this constraint- and construction-based approach.

The Syntactic Structure of Some Double Nominative Constructions in Korean

Cho, Sae Youn 대한언어학회 1999 언어학 Vol.7 No.2

Cho, Sae-Youn. 1999. The Syntactic Structure of Some Double Nominative Constructions in Korean.1 Linguistics 7-2, 335-348. Double Nominative Constructions (DNC) containing more than two nominative-marked NPs within a clause has attracted much attention within many theories (O'Grady (1991), Yoon (1987), Park (1981)). However, there remain some problems to be an adequate theory of the DNC. An adequate analysis of the DNC must answer at least the following questions: (i) is it possible to provide a unified solution to treat the DNC? and (ii) are all nominative-marked NPs of the DNC subjects? or is one of them the real subject of the DNC?. To answer these questions, I claim that there are at least two types of the DNC and in each type, only one subject exists. (Honam University)

Problems with Complement Extraction

Cho, Sae Youn 대한언어학회 1997 언어학 Vol.5 No.2

Cho, Sae-Youn. 1997. Problems with Complement Extraction. Linguistics, 5-2, 21-34. This paper is mainly concerned with complement extraction in English. Recently, BMS (1997) have proposed the so-called Dependent Realization Constraint to allow a lexical head to be realized as either a local dependent or a nonlocal dependent. Though this constraint might seem to attain a theoretical achievement in that it enables us to provide a unified account of extraction dependencies such as subject, complement and adverb extraction, it appears to be empirically not fully tested. Hence, this paper shows what data can be problematic for this constraint and suggests a solution to them. (Honam University)

어휘주의와 구성 성분 : 형태소'-대' The Morpheme'-tay'

조세연 경희대학교 언어연구소 2001 언어연구 Vol.18 No.-

Following Bresnan & Mchombo (1995), some current syntactic theories such as Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) hold 'strong lexicalism' in treating the morphemes containing various kinds of apparent syntactic information. However, this strong lexicalism has caused numerous empirical and theoretical problems in analyzing some Korean morphemes. The morpheme '-tay' in Korean seems to be one of the problematic morphemes which plays an important role in deciding Clausality and Argument Structures. In this paper, we provide a hybrid analysis of the morpheme '-tay' in Korean, after demonstrating several properties of the morpheme and reviewing well-known traditional analyses of it.

Contrastive Stripping Constructions in English: A Construction-Based Approach

Sae-Youn Cho,Han-gyu Lee 현대문법학회 2020 현대문법연구 Vol.105 No.-

This paper aims to account for the idiosyncratic properties of the Contrastive Stripping Construction (CSC) in English. The main issues on this construction are how to generate its 4 possible skeletal structures and get the right contrastive reading from them. Rejecting the Movement-Ellipsis approaches facing theoretical and/or empirical problems, we propose a constructionbased analysis of the CSC which interacts the English CSC-cx rule with various lexical information of the lexemes such as and and but. This enables us to generate the 4 skeletal structures of the CSC and assign an appropriate contrastive reading to them.

Scrambling in Koran: A Marker-based Approach

Cho, Sae-Youn,Choe, Jong-Joo Korean Society for Language and Information 2001 언어와 정보 Vol.5 No.1

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between nominal markers and scrambling in Korean by providing proper LP constraints based on Cho &Chai (2000) anc Cho & Choe(2001). In doing so, we introduce a new type marker which includes case, postpositions and delimiters and propose the Adjunct LP Constraint and the Argument LP Constraint. Our LP constraints presents a solution to the problems of the previous analyses such as Kuno's (1980) Crossing-Over Constraint. The newly postulated type marker enables us to account for the scrambling possibilities of the NPs containing cases as well as postpositions and delimiters.

Some Issues on Causative Verbs in English

Sae Youn Cho 한국언어정보학회 2009 언어와 정보 Vol.13 No.1

The Why-not Construction in Korean: A Direct Interpretation Approach

( Sae-youn Cho ),( Han-gyu Lee ) 대한언어학회 2018 언어학 Vol.26 No.2

The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 26(2), 1-19. The why-not construction in Korean seems to have such patterns as Why NP+SubjCase Negative Copula(NC)+Q. However, a careful examination reveals that the Korean why-not construction exhibits various idiosyncratic properties depending on its subtypes. We argue that the construction in Korean should be divided into two types: Why NP+SubjCase NC+Q (Type I) and Why VP[(NP+SubjCase) NC+Q] (Type II). Then we claim that the two subtypes can be analyzed in the Construction-based HPSG under a Direct Interpretation Approach. To support this claim, we propose a why-not construction rule for Korean, which can enable us to capture the various grammatical and pragmatic properties of the patterns at hand.